2023.4.8

Release date: September 6, 2024

Deprecation of Automation Suite on EKS/AKS 2023.4

We are deprecating Automation Suite on EKS/AKS 2023.4, with support for this version to officially cease on November 3, 2024.

To ensure your automation processes continue to enjoy the advantages of an expansive feature set, fortified security, and optimum internal dependencies, make sure you use Automation Suite on EKS/AKS 2023.10 or later.

Be aware that Automation Suite on EKS/AKS 2023.4 will no longer receive any Cumulative Updates (CU) or hotfixes.

Despite the deprecation of Automation Suite on EKS/AKS 2023.4, Automation Suite on Linux 2023.4 will continue to receive support after November 3, 2024, as per Product lifecycle. Stay tuned for future updates and feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Release date: August 14, 2024

Bug fixes

• For AI Center and Task Mining, the ListBucket API prerequisite check failed when using an external objectstore. However, AI Center and Task Mining do not use the ListBucket API permission. We have removed the unnecessary check.

Known issues

Erratum - added October 17, 2024

In a proxy environment, if the proxy server uses the same port as the TCP port of any other service in the Istio service mesh, such as port 8080, pods cannot communicate with the FQDN. The issue causes the following error:

System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: The proxy tunnel request to proxy 'http://<proxyFQDN>:8080/' failed with status code '404'.

To fix the issue, see Automation Suite on EKS/AKS troubleshooting.

Deprecation timeline

We recommend that you regularly check the deprecation timeline for any updates regarding features that will be deprecated and removed.

Bundling details

Product versions

To find out what has changed on each Automation Suite product, visit the following links.

If the product is greyed out, this new Automation Suite version does not bring any changes to it.

Erratum - added October 17, 2024: Changed the bundles version of Test Manager to 2023.4.6.

DISCOVER	BUILD	MANAGE	ENGAGE
Automation Hub 2023.4.8	Automation Ops 2023.4.8	AI Center 2023.4.8	Action Center 2023.4.8
Task Mining 2023.4.8	AI Computer Vision 2023.4.7	Insights 2023.4.8	Apps 2023.4.8
Process Mining 2023.4.8	Document Understanding 2023.4.8	Orchestrator 2023.4.9
		Test Manager 2023.4.6
		Data Service 2023.4.8

Internal third-party component versions

For the Kubernetes versions that each Automation Suite version supports, see Kubernetes compatibility.

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
Istio	1.22.2
ArgoCD	2.10.9
Prometheus	2.53.0
Grafana	11.1.0
Fluentd & Fluent-bit	logging-operator: 4.8.0 logging-operator-logging: 4.8.0
Gatekeeper	3.16.3
Cert-Manager	1.14.5
Velero	6.2.0

Migration tool version

The migration tool version you need depends on the standalone products you plan to migrate and the targeted Automation Suite version. For more details, see Migration compatibility matrix.

For instructions on migrating a standalone product to the current version of Automation Suite, see Full migration.